It seems odd that such a highly developed civilization has not yet found a way to combat parasites. These pesky creatures build huge hives or nests which often block or slow down the orderly progress of the earthling. However, the earthling seems to have this matter in hand. The eradication of these pests is obviously a top priority job for the working class.
Kaj Pindal & Les Drew’s awesome animated short What On Earth! - now available on YouTube.
One perk of being Treasury Secretary is that you get your signature on every currency note printed. Beats the hell out of having some bureaucratic office building named after you.
Ultimately Bentsen will be forever known for The Quote, but the first thing I think of (and why I’m posting this) is the hilarious clip of young first-term Rep. Bentsen in The Atomic Cafe where he rants against communism and then urges people to petition congress for a resolution to nuke North Korea.
Back when it was still fashionable to have band stickers on the back of your car I home-brewed up a Spectrum sticker using the back design of the “How You Satisfy Me” single. It’s a cool op-art design and later Sonic printed up a t-shirt with it for the 2002 tour.
I always figured that the origin of it was some sort of “generic” op-art design from the sixties and sure enough, while hopping around on eBay I noticed this.
So it dates back to at least 1973. I’m sure that it’s something/someone famous that I should already be aware of but the archeology continues…
I took this photo on a family road trip in November 1976 when I was about 10 or 11 years old. Not surprisingly, even then I was obsessed with roadside culture. Who says you outgrow your childhood interests?
Nice to see that the El Bambi is still going strong too.
Good grief, I feel like I’ve discovered that some part of my brain has been miswired. I’ve owned this album since it was released and only now did I notice the connection between it
and this
Boing Boing posts about a run-down kiddie amusement park in Egypt and I was reminded about Rock-A-Hoola.
Rock-A-Hoola is (was?) a mostly closed-but-not-quite-totally-abandoned water park out in the Mojave Desert in Newberry Springs, CA. The park has been kicking around irregularly since at least the early-70s - I remember ads for Lake Dolores (as it was known back then) airing on KTLA in the cheap post-midnight airspace alongside Truckmaster School Of Trucking and Cal Worthington. Presumably the idea was for it to be a tourist/camping stopover on the road between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. I couldn’t imagine anyone being excited to to there - it’s too far for a day trip from LA and not much there to give you a reason to stay. I suppose there’s always the Vegas crowd, but it seem like they always REALLY want to get to Vegas.
Anyway, I snagged some photos of the place in October 2003. The main water slide part of the park was fenced off (and patrolled by dogs) but I got some pictures of the surrounding facilities. I still have to question the long-term viability of a water park in an area with little water and abundant evaporation, but that’s not stopping folks from dreaming.
Lake Dolores / Rock-A-Hoola on Wikipedia
Rock-A-Hoola in better days.
Is it just me, or does the latest iteration of Donald Trump’s “Trump Tower Dubai” look like the larval-stage of some monster insect? As soon as it gestates long enough, the Trump Roach/Mantis kaiju will emerge - ready to do battle with Godzilla.
Of course, since it is the BioMechaTrump monster - it will have to be “The most impressive greatest no-expense-spared monster in the world!” Maybe Trump will even let the winners of The Apprentice 10 take it out.
Dubai is so ready for a giant monster battle.
KrazyDad posts about an airplane he took a picture of and commented on how soon after posting the picture, a commenter ID’ed the plane and posted links to another photo of the same plane after it had collided with another plane on the ground.
I had a similar experience late last year. On the trip east in January 2005, I was randomly driving around New Orleans, taking pictures, gawking at houses, all the usual tourist stuff. Suddenly I ran across the most amazing looking movie theater - an art deco wonder that reminded me of the old May Company building on Wilshire Blvd. here in L.A. Clearly, the theater was the winner of the neighborhood “which one of these is not like the other” architectural game and a picture was an absolute must. I remember that the intersection was pretty busy and I had to circle the block a couple of times before I could get something in focus and that’s what is over there on the right. In retrospect I should have just parked the damn car.
After Katrina, I had wondered what happened to the Coliseum and late last year I got an email from someone who ran across my photo and pointed me to some aftermath photos - the groovy facade took a heavy beating, but the building was still hanging in there. In October, some tarps went up and apparently was being restored and transformed into a studio. I hadn’t thought about it for awhile until I read KrazyDad’s post on the kindness of helpful strangers, remembered the random post-Katrina emailer and took a look.
The Coliseum burned to the ground in February of this year and Flickr is there to hold the documentation and the memories.
Heinz Stucke has been bicycling around the world continuously for the past 44 years. A couple of days ago his bicycle (with 335,500 miles on it) was stolen just as he arrived in the UK. Two days later it was recovered and he’s back on road again.
A couple weeks ago, Karl Bushby was arrested after crossing the Bering Strait icepack into Russia as part of his 12 year, 36,000 mile walk from Tierra Del Fuego to his home in the UK. The haze of Russian regional bureaucracy has lifted (with the aid of a Russian billionaire) and he’s back on the move.
OK folks, time for all of the complainers out there to take action.
PGP Corporation is developing multi-platform security software to secure email, files, disks, and other media.
This position will be responsible for testing the MAC OS X interface for all PGP products. Proven experience testing MAC based shrink wrap products is required.
At least PGP is finally doing something about the dodgy nature of PGP 9. Still, my secret wish for OS X 10.5 is that GPG is rolled into it.
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